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I agree that strlcpy is braindamaged, but why in God's Green Earth isn't there a sensible replacement in stdlib in 2019? This shouldn't be that hard, yet the best alternative is I think snprintf, which is just so ugly. For a long time it wasn't used because compiler support was spotty, but it's been 20 years now so that shouldn't be a major issue anymore.

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There is, it's strncpy_s and it was added in C11. And I know, nobody uses C11: that's a security failure.

strncpy_s performs a lot of checks that might not be useful, though.

The (more-or-less) sensible replacement is std::string. Adoption has been spotty, for practical, ideological, and fetishistic reasons.

The first step is to compile the C program with a C++ compiler. Next, start making improvements. If you skip the first step, the ceiling on improvements is limited.

C++≠C, and making the jump isn't always feasible.

As I said.

And when it's not, the ceiling on improvements is limited.

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